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The Moon meets Titan
Titan has a strange fixation on the Earth and the Moon, prompting him to cross the Asteroid Belt to meet them.
Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...
Now while this asteroid is no where close to being big enough to actually knock the Moon off it's orbital path, it could send ...
The recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has caught astronomers' attention for an unexpected reason. While the risk of ...
James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
The ESA wrote in a blog post: "By March 2025, astronomers had ruled out an Earth impact in 2032. However, the final observations of the asteroid failed to rule out another intrigu ...
An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA ...
Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...
The Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...
Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...
NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...